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...Sharon will wage pretty much the same campaign as Benjamin Netanyahu would have, although the former prime minister's disastrous first term would have offered a bigger target for Barak's attack dogs. Instead, they'll blame Sharon for the Lebanon war, which Barak ended last June in a move that was welcomed by Israelis across partisan lines. And they'll charge that the methods that have earned Sharon the nickname "The Bulldozer" are unlikely to bring peace. But Sharon's team will hammer Barak on the breakdown of the peace process, accusing him of dangerous...
...refuse to compromise their principles" for any personal gain, certainly not to win a position in a college student organization. Perhaps all of us would see more of these "Good Guys" on campus if we, as Harvard students, were more reluctant to judge and blindly accept unsubstantiated rumors--and instead took a closer look at campus organizations...
...bumps, and after eight years of economic good times his status as a pilot is legendary. He never claimed to be able to beat the cycle, even after he became a New Economy convert - he'd just rather it bounced between 7 percent and 3 percent annual GDP growth, instead of something on both sides of zero...
...plenty of time to think about it, of course. But a few suggestions have already popped up. If he can't be president of the United States, perhaps he'd enjoy taking the helm of his alma mater instead? Gore is one of 500 nominees who will be considered for the top job at Harvard University, although most suspect he will not make the final cut. "He'll go into our pool and be considered seriously," Robert G. Stone of the Harvard Corporation told the Associated Press. But, Stone continued - and here's the tough part, Al - "Gore doesn...
...their jobs, and ousting him would have meant new elections. Now Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak may have benefited from a similar effect. His most dangerous challenger, Benjamin Netanyahu, bowed out of the February election Monday, citing the legislature's refusal to vote for a full new election. Instead, the Knesset voted on a special "Bibi Bill" to allow any citizen to run in February's poll, which is only for the post of prime minister (the law had previously restricted the elections to members of the current parliament). Although polls have Netanyahu leading Barak...